Cut your project budget by 50% or more and deliver an action plan in weeks, not months!

With footprinter you can go twice as far, twice as fast, with half the budget. Get up the carbon learning curve as fast as possible so you can chase down the cost curve.

footprinter delivers significant and quantifiable savings in project costs and project time:
  • Develop a carbon model for your organization in days and hours rather than weeks. Make progress faster. Get a preliminary understanding of your hot spots faster. Get to an answer faster.
  • Do not waste time re-inventing the wheel. Use a proven, uniform approach throughout modelling, data collection, analysis and planning. Limit research time to a minimum by accessing pre-screened, standardized datasets.
  • Limit data and modelling risk. Collect data utilizing the people in your organization that know it best. Leverage the people that work with the data on a daily basis, know how to interpret it, and understand its quality.
  • Get everyone working on the same page. Harmonize efforts across the organization. Reduce compatibility problems.
  • Develop a core organization process and institutional knowledge that isn't limited and doesn't rely on an individual or small group who “wrote the model”.
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Are you still modelling your carbon footprint with spreadsheets?

 

It is tempting to start “playing with a spreadsheet”. In the long-run, the negatives of spreadsheet models far outweigh their initial perceived advantages.

Spreadsheets pose severe practical limitations for developing the information required to understand your carbon footprint:
  • Have you spent hours finding and fixing bugs in a spreadsheet?
    The chance of data, formula and modeling errors with spreadsheets built for footprints is significant. With footprinter, units of measure are built in and linked to the correct emissions coefficient. No formulas means no errors.
  • Have you spent hours trying to understand how a model works?
    Carbon is a multi-dimensional problem. There are the dimensions of your organization, the dimensions of risk to consider and the dimensions of data quality.
  • Have you spent hours in coordination and reconciliation meetings?
    Spreadsheets aren’t well suited for team-based projects. Harmonization is time-consuming and the results are usually unsatisfactory. Different people model things differently, even if it’s only slightly. This can easily lead to incompatible results and last minute re-works.
  • Have you had to work with a complicated model that was originally written 12 months ago, and changed so many times that even the original author can’t figure it out?
    Typically modeling knowledge is central to one or two people that “built the model”. What happens when the model builder is reassigned? Developing good documentation, and managing the model itself can develop into a full time job.